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Category Archives: Soulful Expressions
Art Displaying Grief “too serious” for SF Cafe
Ritual Coffee Roasters removes exhibit by Varese Layzer after just 6 days.
A small sensation has swept San Francisco this week, surrounding a show of photographs by the artist Varese Layzer. On June 21st, the exhibit, entitled “Making Room,” was put up for display at Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco’s Mission … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Grieving, Mission District, Ritual Roasters, San Francisco, Thomas Hawk, Varese Layzer
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Bringing the Bucket List Out Into the Open
Street Art Addresses Death and Dying
The idea of the bucket list has emerged in the conversation about death and dying, the concern that we may reach the end of life without doing all that we wished to do. This week’s featured project allows one community … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Before I Die, Bucket List, Candy Chang, Death and Dying, Installation art, New Orleans, Public art, Street Art
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A Street Artist’s Memorial to Homicides
Artist Swoon honored the missing women of the Juarez femicides with a portrait of an early victim.
In 2008, the artist Swoon, known for her life-size wheatpaste prints and cutouts of figures displayed throughout the streets of New York City, created a memorial to the victims of female homicides in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. … Continue reading
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Tagged Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Memorial, Mexico, Mission District, San Francisco, Street Art, Swoon, Watson
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Baumschulenweg Crematorium
Architecture of crematorium incorporates healing, peace into space.
Designed by renowned architects Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank and completed in 1999, the Baumschulenweg Crematorium in Berlin, Germany remains one of the most outstanding contemporary buildings in the city. Although bearing the title “crematorium”, the tranquil space offers far … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Berlin, Cremains, Cremation, Cremation Ashes, Crematorium, Crematory, Funeral home
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Funeral Urns: Art to Honor Life
Funeria urns and art exhibit stand as memorial to individuals we've lost
Funeria is an international arts agency that enlists top artists to create unique art you might not expect: funeral urns. Each piece is a fascinating memorial to the individual it was created to honor, a beautiful work of art that … Continue reading
A Tribute through Portrait
Richard Avedon's photographs of his father's last years
Throughout the 20th Century, Richard Avedon was hailed for his unique portraiture, capturing the raw essence of the American people. Perhaps some of his most captivating portraits are those he took in the early 1970’s of his dying father. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Jacob Israel Avedon, Losing a Parent, minimalism, photography, portraiture, Richard Avedon
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